Grill Out this Sunday! 1st Tomatoes, Dark Side Stout, Garlic Harvest, Create a Painting + more!

Join us for a Grill Out this Sunday! We'll be celebrating summer with our "Burgers, Brats, and Beer", on Sunday, July 29 from 12-5!  The food truck will be here, and they'll be cooking up their delicious grilled hamburgers, beer bratwurst, fried cheese curds, and of course our Beer! Dark Side Stout is back on tap!  This medium-bodied beer is dark & full of the rich flavors of coffee and chocolate!  It's delicious! CSA Farm Members, the moment we've all been waiting for has finally arrived!  The first ripe tomatoes of the season will be in your shares this week!  Scroll down to the CSA section to see the entire list of veggies in your share this week! Farm CSA Members: Group B half-share members and Full Share members, you are scheduled to pickup your organic vegetable shares this weekend. Scroll down for details on this week's CSA items. Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery - taproom open Fridays 4-9, Saturdays 12-9, Sundays 12-5.   Tap Room Bar at our Brewery In our Tap Room this weekend, open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays 12-9 pm, and Sundays 12-5 pm, we will be pouring fresh from our taps: Dark Side - Stout Chupacabra - IPA brewed with Warrior & Enigma hops Overcast - German-style Hefeweizen Unicorn Tears -  copper colored, malty ale Alton - mild brown ale Honey Wheat - mild & easy drinking! Peach Mango Ale - a sweeter style fruit beer  Homemade Root Beer (non-alcoholic) In addition to fresh beer by the glass, we also have growler fills available for carry-out!   Upcoming Events at Wishful Acres:   July 29 (Sunday) - "Burgers, Brats, and Beer"  - Grill Out from 12-5 pm!  Most meat items are $5, and include Mrs. Mike's potato chips.  There will be food cooked to order: Grilled Hamburgers, Grilled Beer Bratwurst, Fried Cheese Curds, and more!  Please note: food truck items are cash only.  August 12 (Sunday) - Food Truck Grill Out 12-5 pm August 18 & 19 - Brew & Brush with artist Mia!  Mia will be leading this class in creating a Summer Scene painting. Snacks & a drink are included.  Burgers, Brats, and Beer at the Brewery July 29 (Sunday) - "Burgers, Brats, and Beer"  - Grill Out from 12-5 pm!  Most meat items are $5, and include Mrs. Mike's potato chips.  There will be food cooked to order: Grilled Hamburgers, Grilled Beer Bratwurst, Fried Cheese Curds, and more!  Please note: food truck items are cash only.  Garlic Harvest 2018! We harvested hundreds of garlic plants this week here at Wishful Acres!  Our CSA Members will be seeing the garlic bulbs in their shares soon!  Want to see what garlic looks like as it's pulled from the ground??!  We took a short video and uploaded it to our Facebook page.  Here is a direct link to our quick Garlic Harvest video:  https://www.facebook.com/WishfulAcresFarm/videos/10155294752987191/ Brew & Brush - create this painting! Snacks & drink included. Join us for "Brew & Brush" on Saturday, August 18 from 11:00-1:00 or Sunday, August 19, from 12:00-2:00 pm. Ages 21+. In this class, you'll create this summer scene painting under the instruction of our friend, local artist Mia Rudolph! Welcome all levels of painting abilities! In this class, you will create a 16" x 20" painting with acrylic on canvas! Mia will guide you through the process of painting this subject, pictured here, of a beautiful summer scene. This painting is easier to make than it looks! Mia will be instructing the class step-by-step and using stencils as well. Included in the cost of your class: the canvas, paint, supplies, snacks,1 drink token (1 pint glass of our homemade craft beers or a homemade root beer), and door prize by artist Mia are all provided in the cost of your class!  $39 per person. About the artist instructing your class: Mia Rudolph is a local artist who works in acrylics, color pencil, and other mediums. She is a full-time school nurse and has 3 children. Mia attended WIU and studied studio art. It is Mia's colorful artwork that we have on display in our taproom here at Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Pre-registration for this class is required. You can sign-up and pay here through our online store, or in-person at our taproom during open hours. Registration deadline is the Friday prior to the painting dates. Ages 21+ Sign up in our web site's Online Store here:  http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/online-store/Brew-%26-Brush-Create-this-painting-Snacks-%26-drink-included-August-18-or-19-2018-p95955698 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Member News Our recipe database contains cooking ideas for all the vegetables we grow - link here. Farm CSA Members: In your share of organic items this week: Tomatoes!!!- The first ripe tomatoes of the season!  This is a first small harvest, the Cherry Tomatoes are ripening and you'll each get a small bag mixed with several colors & varieties of cherry tomatoes including: orange Sun Gold, red Amish Large Cherry, pale yellow White Cherry, and few purple Chocolate Cherry.  The big tomatoes should start to ripen soon; so far it's just the cherry tomatoes. Enjoy this first taste! Garlic - Freshly harvested, this small garlic bulb will still be crunchy! Zucchini & Patty Pan Summer Squash- A nice bag of beautiful yellow Patty Pan Squash, green zucchini, and yellow crookneck summer squash!  Enjoy all of these just as you would zucchini.   Hot Peppers- A few large chili peppers & some smaller jalapeno too.  Green Beans- A BIG bag of green beans - nearly 2 pounds in each of your shares! Yellow Beans- A bag of beautiful colored yellow beans. Enjoy just like regular green beans, you can mix then with your green beans & cook together, or keep separate.  Basil- Yum, fresh basil! Great for making pesto, livening up a pizza, or just enjoying sprinkled on top of your Italian foods! Makes tomatoes sparkle with flavor! Asian Cucumbers - 3 of these in each of your shares. Asian cucumbers are longer than a regular cucumber, similar to the "English" or "burpless" type of long cucumbers you see wrapped in plastic in grocery stores. Our favorite type of cucumber! Cucumbers - 8 each! Still a HUGE Bumper crop year for cucumbers!!! The peak of the harvest may be here for cukes.  Get ready for lots of cukes - you'll get 8 each in your share, plus Asian cukes as well.  Get ready to make some cucumbers salads, and maybe some refrigerator pickles!  Or, share with friends & family - it's rare that we have such a huge crop of cucumbers! Green Pepper - Sweet bell peppers. You'll see 2 crunchy fresh green peppers in your share. Australian Yellowleaf Lettuce -  This heirloom variety of lettuce originates in Australia!   Need recipe ideas for the items in your share? Here is a link to the Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery recipe database, with cooking ideas for everything we grow here: http://all-natural-mama.blogspot.com/2015/03/recipes-by-vegetable-type.html    Our 30-member CSA Program (Community Supported Agriculture) is a membership program in which members become "shareholders" in the farm's seasonal vegetable production & receive a "share" of the farm's organic  produce for our full 22-week-long season! To learn more: http://www.wishfulacresfarm.com/csa-program  .   Where to Buy our Beer: Our beer is available for purchase at the following locations: Our Taproom!  Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery, located between Freeport & Lena - Visiting Info Benchwarmers, Freeport, IL Cove Restaurant at Apple Canyon Lake, IL Lodi Tap House, Maple Park, IL Mulligans, Lena, IL  Park Hills Golf Course, Freeport, IL Pub 219, Freeport, IL Rosati's Pizza, Freeport, IL  Route 75 Bar & Grill, Dakota, IL Woodbine Bend Golf Course, Stockton, IL  Be sure to follow Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery on facebook!  Here is a link to our facebook page.  Want to stop receiving these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list Thank you & Best Wishes from Wishful Acres Farm & Brewery! Open Fridays 4-9 pm, Saturdays, 12-9 pm, and Sundays 12-5 pm Tap room is located on our farm at 4679 N. Flansburg Rd, Lena IL You can contact us at: wishfulacres@gmail.com or 815-990-2380            Copyright © 2018 Wishful Acres Farm, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at a farmers market, opted in at our website, or participated in a program with our family farm. Our mailing address is: Wishful Acres Farm 4679 N Flansburg Rd, Lena, IL, United States Lena, IL 61048 Add us to your address book